I for one have very little idea of what the GNU system is intended to look like, not with respect to kernel hacking or super-advanced features or driver implementations, but simply from a basic user and/or sysadmin perspective. Which I think is one reason why it is hard for anyone (outside the inner circle) to figure out how they can contribute.
Is there any specifications, guidelines, roadmaps, examples, or other documentation about what "GNU" is intended to look like? I.e., the target we are presumably all aiming for? I think the short term goal (which is not that short) is to get GNU into the same state that GNU/Linux is, i.e. have GNOME running nicely, a simple installer, etc. I doubt we will ever be immensly different from GNU/Linux, it is after all a GNU system!
